Malvern Hill

Malvern Hill was a house on the north bank of the James River in Henrico County, Virginia, located 18 miles southeast of Richmond. Thomas Cocke built a house named after the Malvern Hills in England; Malvern Hill is not itself a hill. The Marquis de Lafayette camped there twice in 1781 during the American Revolutionary War, Virginia militia camped there during the War of 1812, and it was the site of the bloody Battle of Malvern Hill in 1862 during the American Civil War. The house was destroyed by fire in 1905.